Alec Baldwin Stars as Legendary Car Designer— and Himself — In First Trailer for Hybrid Film 'Framing John DeLorean'

Alec Baldwin dons a wacky wig to play a powerful and wealthy American business tycoon who marries a model and comes under investigation by the FBI. You guessed it — it's John DeLorean.

The first trailer for the bizarre hybrid film/documentary "Framing John DeLorean" dropped on Wednesday, in which the SNL star both plays himself, and the legendary car designer.

The most surprising thing about this project is it has taken until 2019 for this to happen; indeed the trailer opens with an interviewer incredulously asking DeLorean real life son Zachary: "Are you surprised a feature film hasn't been made about your dad and his life?"

John DeLorean was famed for a number of reasons: Being the youngest ever division head at General Motors at 40; spearheading the Pontiac GTO muscle car and the Pontiac Firebird, breaking off to launch his own car company, and creating the "Back To The Future" car that also carries his name.

He is also infamous for as many things, including the bankruptcy of the same company, being arrested for — and later acquitted because he was illegally entrapped into — a cocaine smuggling operation.

"A number of people have been wanting to do a movie of my life," the real John says in archive footage in the trailer.

"John DeLorean was the leading man Hollywood producers dream of," one interviewee concurs, "...and he was real."

The film takes the unusual approach of being both a traditional biopic — with Baldwin playing the lead — as well as a documentary, using actual footage of the entrepreneur, with commentary from Baldwin himself.